Vera Farmiga Quotes - Page 3

I chase after inspiring stories.

It's terrifying to be the lead. There's a moment of excitement, and then pure terror.

As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character.

The depth of exploration of the male psyche and the female psyche is uneven. I see further, deeper renderings of what it means to be a man.

The different tempos and yeah, it's cadence. It's the way she moves through space, it's gestures.

Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.

I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.

Whenever I wore it there were some questions whether the outfit was just too over the top. I'm like, "Do you know who you're dealing with here, and her eccentricities, her style, her flair?" These little things were sometimes those - I love it. I love having a real-life model. But I also do flush it out with my own personal experiences and my own essence, and hopefully they mesh together.

I'm a full-time mom. I've never felt as prepared, as before maternity.

I cannot even imagine college. I'm white-knuckling it just letting my son go to kindergarten for eight hours a day.

I love to be surprised.

I bring myself innately to it, yeah. I bring those details as much as I - what I don't obsess over is, there are certain ways I might've pushed it even a little more. For example, [to Warren] your accent. I know Warner Bros. at one point came in. I don't know, until you came to set, I know I wore that long tartan skirt and the ruffled blouse for that.

It's such a measure of your solidarity with Ed, that when you would give lectures, he would be wearing a tartan tie that matched. And I demanded that outfit, I thought it was so punk - her long skirt, she looked like a Scottish queen, so regal.

It's thematic in my career, if you look at most of my choices. It is some level of exploration of maternal angst and maternal heroism.

You know what's more difficult to do organically? Laughing. It's actually one of the hardest things to do on camera.

I'm pretty squeaky clean. No big tragedies in my childhood or adolescence or adulthood. I've had a very easygoing, simple life.

I've done TV, but never where you're given this much time to live with a character, to study the tone and hone it and repair stuff, to go back and watch old episodes and go, "Oh no, that's a misstep. That's a victory. I should do more of that, less of that."

Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it.

Do I observe holy days and holidays? Yeah, the ritual is very important to me. It's part of being Ukrainian Catholic. So every holy day we're baking pierogis and not eating meat.

I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.

I have a two-year-old who just turned three, and my four-year-old just turned five. I have the same irrational feelings taking them to pre-school. It's this charged combination of stress and joy and anxiety and excitement. When they're away, you've got a sudden loss of purpose and this ever-present fear about the kid's welfare. The departure of our children from our nest is not an easy thing.

Ruminants are a perfectly normal thing to possess when you live in upstate New York. It's just moving scenery. It's kind of like the equivalent of Great Danes. It's the way you keep your grass mowed. It's the way you keep your weed-whacking to a minimum.

Whether youre making a million dollar film or a $100 million film there is never enough money, theres never enough time.

The more people know about you, the more face-time you get in the media, the harder your job becomes to create a character in whom people suspend disbelief.

I don't necessarily need Hollywood.